The Morning Blessing | April 11 2012
When was the last time you celebrated yourself? When was the last time you toasted to all that you have accomplished? Do you say, “Thank you” or “Alright, you did it!” to yourself on a regular basis? This is not a small thing to be taken lightly. All the books say to celebrate your accomplishments, but they don’t say this it essential to feeling joy and success. When we don’t celebrate our success we are letting it die. When it dies it takes a small piece of us with it. Yes, I mean when we don’t say, “You go girl!” or “Great job!” it is like we are ignoring our progress, our work and our efforts. When we ignore them, it’s like they didn’t happen. It’s like our efforts have gone unnoticed.
Often, instead of giving ourselves credit, we look for validation outside. We want it from our clients, parents, teachers, spouses and even our children. We feel like they don’t appreciate us if they don’t value our accomplishments. In Science of Mind we learn to acknowledge ourselves so I say whenever you are looking for outside validation, take it as an opportunity to give it to yourself instead.
Whatever you wish “they” were saying, say it to yourself! Just think, you can tell yourself . . . good job, you’re brilliant, or I would hire you in an instant and pay you lots of money! Wouldn’t it be powerful to give ourselves the validation we seek outside? Hey, we talk to ourselves all the time, but often the words are not validating or loving. It is a skill you already have and use for others. Don’t you think it’s time you use it for your own good and not evil!
All the time you have spent seeking validation, praise, acknowledgement or love from outside, it has been within waiting to be tapped. It is inside you in abundance just longing to be accessed. Know that when you are looking for acceptance, reward, acknowledgement, etc. from others it is a sign that you are feeling empty and it is a sign to fill yourself up. Take the promptings as a signal to do self-care, to take time to celebrate, to pause and ask yourself why you are so great. What would it feel like to be that powerful on behalf of You?
Pretend you are coaching yourself. Pretend you are your own client; pretend you are your child. Ask, “What would I say to them?” Then just say it to yourself!!! Just imagine what it would be like if you never were longing for someone else to say, “I am so proud of you!” or someone else to say, “Good Job!” or someone else to say, “I love you.” How powerful that would be!
Bask in your own greatness! You really do unwittingly surpass the little box you put yourself in –
Blessing
I center myself in a moment of Presentness. A moment of hushed, cosmic reverberance where I meet universal spiritual truth. The truth that there is only One conveying power aware of its unbound infinity and universality even in the finiteness of expression. From the silence within comes a realization that I, too, am a process of It’s self-revelation making visible the inherent truth of its powers of existence according to the harmonic law natural to all manifestation of the Infinite. This now moment allows me to know I am the very nature of an essential and universal good manifesting itself.
So today I call forth this nature; this self-effectuating consciousness that is the purity of infinite diversity. I open wider and allow the light of eternal self-existence to pour Itself into all of my activities ~ making and keeping all things pure. There will be no ignorance leading to wrong will, not the falsehood of separation contrary to the all good of Oneness. In soul, mind, life, and body I am a consciousness of harmony, self-knowledge, and self-mastery incorporating an identity of persona.
I have particularized myself as a composition of life that is potent, strong, and beautifully recognized as a child of God. Today, I live not as a personality expressive of a larger secret being, but greater, as the inner conscious Existence self-revealed!
May it happen that this inner largeness overflows into the surface formation of my structural limits always and forever. My heart leaps with anticipation as my Power of Being moves forward into another day sharing this multiplicity of goodness with all I meet.
And so it is. Amen.
Love thyself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself